Understanding before Moving 76: Hanging pawns under pressure

In the previous  episode we saw a game with an isolated queen pawn (IQP) that turned into a middlegame with the so-called "hanging pawns". The diagrammed position below is from a famous game  between Rubinstein and Salwe, which illustrates how White can handle this type of position.

White quickly got hold of the important square c5 which he controlled until the end of the game. The weak pawns of Black came under pressure and Black started to falter. His last move was 26...Ra7? "A bad position carries the  seeds of loss," Tarrasch once said, and Black's tactical error allowed White to win material. What did he do?

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• Understanding before moving 1: How to design a concept in the opening
• Understanding before moving 2: How to improve the activity of my pieces
• Understanding before moving 3: Queen in the corner
• Understanding before moving 4: King in the box
• Understanding before moving 5: Locked up pieces
• Understanding before moving 6: Paralyzed
• Understanding before moving 7: Divided in two - Part 1
• Understanding before moving 8: Divided in two - Part 2
• Understanding before moving 9: Hunting the king - Part 1
• Understanding before moving 10: Hunting the king - Part 2
• Understanding before moving 11: Pattern Recognition
• Understanding before moving 12: Advantage in Development
• Understanding before moving 13: Compensation
• Understanding before moving 14: Smoking the king out
• Understanding before moving 15: Knight on the Rim
• Understanding before moving 16: Limiting the opponent’s activity
• Understanding before moving 17: The Panno knight
• Understanding before Moving 18: The bad bishop
• Understanding before Moving 19: The rook lift
• Understanding before Moving 20: Activate your worst piece
• Understanding before Moving 21: Strong knight vs bad bishop (1)
• Understanding before Moving 22: Strong knight vs bad bishop (2)
• Understanding before Moving 23: "V" stands for Victory!
• Understanding before Moving 24: Strategic Thinking
• Understanding before Moving 25: The "Strategic Thinking Protocol"
• Understanding before Moving 26: Cooperation between queen and bishop
• Understanding before Moving 27: A "multi-stage" plan
• Understanding before Moving 28: A curious endgame
• Understanding before Moving 29: To exchange or not to exchange
• Understanding before Moving 30: To exchange or not to exchange (2)
• Understanding before Moving 31: To exchange or not to exchange (3)
• Understanding before Moving 32: To trade or not to trade (1)
• Understanding before Moving 33: To trade or not to trade (2)
• Understanding before Moving 34: The principles of Dick Van Geet
• Understanding before Moving 35: Advantage in Development (1)
• Understanding before Moving 36: Advantage in Development (2)
• Understanding before Moving 37: Advantage in Development (3)
• Understanding before Moving 38: The Critical Move (1)
• Understanding before Moving 39: The Critical Move (2)
• Understanding before Moving 40: The Critical Move (3)
• Understanding before Moving 41: The Critical Move (4)
• Understanding before Moving 42: Mating Patterns
• Understanding before Moving 43: Good bishops, bad bishops
• Understanding before Moving 44: Attacking with opposite-coloured bishops
• Understanding before Moving 45: Cooperation between the pieces (1)
• Understanding before Moving 46: Cooperation between the pieces (2)
• Understanding before Moving 47: The target on h6
• Understanding before Moving 48: The target on g6
• Understanding before Moving 49: The beginning of an attack
• Understanding before Moving 50: Typical Sacrifices
• Understanding before Moving 51: The black squares!
• Understanding before Moving 52: Space advantage
• Understanding before Moving 53: Space advantage (2)
• Understanding before Moving 54: Pawn vs knight
• Understanding before Moving 55: Pawn vs knight (2)
• Understanding before Moving 56: The Octopus
• Understanding before Moving 57: The Elephant
• Understanding before Moving 58: "Hemmungsstrategie"
• Understanding before Moving 59: Dynamic vs Static
• Understanding before Moving 60: The advantage of having the two bishops
• Understanding before Moving 61: Light-square strategy
• Understanding before Moving 62: Light-square strategy (2)
• Understanding before Moving 63: The light-squared bishop
• Understanding before Moving 64: The power of the diagonal
• Understanding before Moving 65: Prophylaxis
• Understanding before Moving 66: Prophylaxis (2)
• Understanding before Moving 67: Changing sides
• Understanding before Moving 68: Ideas in the King's Indian
• Understanding before Moving 69: Ideas in the King's Indian (2)
• Understanding before Moving 70: Ideas in the King's Indian (3)
• Understanding before Moving 71: Open and half-open files
• Understanding before Moving 72: Pawn chains in the French Defense (1)
• Understanding before Moving 73: Pawn chains in the French Defense (2)
• Understanding before Moving 74: Pieces that are out of play - and how to exploit them
• Understanding before Moving 75: How to pressure your opponent
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